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Why do we draw? Let me start off by saying that, for me, drawing stands as synecdoche for all of art. At least the visual arts. I think it is foundational in that it teaches us to see; it teaches us to use our eyes properly. Without drawing there would…
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I had a real thing for bones in college. I mean a real thing. My patient wife would put up with me scouting the woods for old skeletons, making trips to taxidermy shops for leftovers, ditto for petshops (before you get all mad at me, they were already dead), even the…
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This project that we gave our high schoolers gave them all sorts of troubles! Most folks are used to thinking in terms of black on white – you draw a black line on a white paper and then add value if you want to give volume to the form. But…
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I am working on other stuff, but I’m really excited about my drawing book of late.
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Here are some more pages from the drawing book. A reworking of that Triceratops (watercolor pencils, I’m finding, are excellent), and some still life and another profile done on the sly.
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Ink, goauche on paper. A cyclops skull of course. You may be saying that it looks like an elephant skull all dressed up as a cyclops skull because, really, real cyclops skulls are hard to come by. But what you don’t know is ol’ Polyphemus’ skull has been in my…
